Abstract
This disclosure describes a shared record for a water basin, meaning a reservoir system, aquifer or catchment that serves a defined area, which lets residents, large water users, the water utility and public authorities read the same facts during a shortage. Each large user that commits to the record, such as a data centre or computing park, submits water readings signed by a certified meter whose identity and calibration are themselves recorded. The utility, or the authority responsible for supply, records the basin's declared supply: storage levels, inflows, the volumes released to each supply zone, and its published order of curtailment, which states which classes of user are cut first when supply falls. The readings, the supply figures and the order are cross-referenced in one append-only, signed registry, so that any party can see, for any period, who drew how much water from which source and how that compares with what the order says. When the utility declares a shortage, the declaration is itself a signed record, and each committed user's runtime water limit tightens automatically by the steps written in its commitment, without waiting for an order; while the declaration stands, the limit can only tighten, and it relaxes only when the declaration is lifted. Every actual cut, whether to a household zone or to a large user, is logged with its time and reason, and the log is checked continuously against the published order, so that if households lose supply before a large user is curtailed, the inversion is flagged publicly at once. Where a user takes desalinated water, the plant's energy use and brine discharge are recorded alongside the volume, desalinated supply is never subtracted from the user's draw on fresh sources or counted as an offset, and it never moves the user ahead of households in the order. If the registry or a meter is unreachable, the user's limit falls to its tightest committed step until the record is restored; an outage can only tighten, never loosen.
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Recommended Citation
Wang, Edward D. H., "Basin Water Record: A Shared, Signed Record per Water Basin in which Large Users' Certified Meter Readings Are Cross-Referenced with the Utility's Declared Supply and a Published Order of Curtailment, a Declared Shortage Automatically Tightens Each Committed User's Limit Without Waiting for an Order, Actual Cuts Are Logged and Checked Against the Published Order so that Any Inversion of Priority Is Visible, and Desalinated Supply Is Recorded with Its Energy and Brine and Never Counted as an Offset", Technical Disclosure Commons, (November 10, 2026)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/12927